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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Angela Merkel (lead image),  the chancellor who destroyed the Christian Democratic party in German politics always hated Russia and President Vladimir Putin most of all. She concealed this for as long as she calculated she needed to preserve the votes of East Germany, German businesses and unions for her re-election. But […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with If you pay government taxes, you have done your bit and contributed to the one hundred billion dollars which the US and its allies have spent on the Ukrainian battlefield since the year began. And if you are German, you are going to be paying one hundred billion Euros in next […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Set your clocks forward from 1337 and from 1618. We are in Europe’s second Hundred Years War, and at the end of the first year of Europe’s second Thirty Years War. What we have to look forward to next year is an armistice on the Ukrainian battlefield, but not an end […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Montreal Express is the one Canadian export to the United States which Americans are afraid of. It’s the sub-zero cold wind which can stop cars, twist railroad tracks, cut power lines, cut off fingers and toes with frostbite and kill with hypothermia. On the calendar it starts to blow about […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Fascism is coming to a screen near you. It may already be there on your smartphone, the wall of your smarthouse, or the computer in your lap or on your desk.  Depending on where you are located, it’s Ausfash, Canfash, Greenfash (Germany), Ukronazism (Canada, Poland, Ukraine). A generation ago, this is […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Australia was the only country in the world to close its borders to its  own citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic, and then to force the few allowed to return into police detention for which the detainees were compelled to pay. This dictatorship of coronavirus as a crime was created by Prime […]

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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with To keep western children safe from being misled by Anglo-American reporters on this topic,  here is a primer on what exactly the newly enacted Russian law says; what Russian public opinion thinks; what the Russian courts, judges,  and lawyers have interpreted the law to mean; and what the record of enforcement […]

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Tamas Gergo Samu interviews John Helmer  @bears_with Tamas Gergo Samu conducted this interview by email earlier this month.  Samu, a journalist,  has been a Hungarian parliament deputy in Budapest; then an adviser to the head of the Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom), a key party in the parliamentary opposition bloc known as United for […]

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By Thomas Röper, introduced and translated by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (lead image, centre) and Thomas Haldenwang (extreme right) the internal security chief Scholz accepted from Angela Merkel, have pulled off a media coup in the style of the first German minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels (on knees).* No German currently employed […]

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Introduced by John Helmer, Moscow, and reported by Christopher Black, Toronto  @bears_with There will be no Russian appeal to the high Dutch courts in the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. A district court judge, Hendrik Steenhuis, ruled on November 17 to acquit one Russian and convict two other Russians and a Ukrainian, all fighting for […]